Stove-pipe drum and oven



IINIEEE STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JAMES BEEBE, OF OHIOAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOE To HIMSELE AND H. HUBEE, OE BLOODY HUN, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOVE-PIPE DRUM AND OVEN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,077, dated March 6, 1566.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BEEBE of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ot' Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heat Radiators and Oven s, which I denominate Beebes Radiator and Oven;7 to be used for radiating heat in hotair furnaces, as a drum for stoves, as a dummy, and as an oven; and I do hereby declare that the following is'a full7 clear, and exact de soription Ot' the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part ot' this specitiation, in which- Figure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section through the center, the same letters representing the same parts in both iigures.

The apparatus is composed of boiler or sheet ironlor other sheet metal. Its body A is a vertical cylinder. D D, Ste., are a series of circular or oval-shaped tubes inserted in the body A, one above another, with their axes all in the same directionthat is, parallel to one another and at right angles to the axis Ot cylinder A-thereby forming horizontal tubular openings quite through the same. D D", &c., are a series of similar tubes, inserted also in the body A between-or alternately with the tubes of the former series, butin a contrary direction, so that a vertical plane passing through the axes of the former series would be at right angles, or nearly so, with a vertical plane passing through the axes ofthe latter series of tubular openin gs.

B is the top, which may be either dat, t'unneLShaped, or oval, and O the collar for receiving the pipe which carries off the smoke.

B is the funnel-shaped bottom, and C the collar for receiving the pipe from the stove, whenever used as a drum or dummy; but B and 0', when the apparatus is used with a hotair furnace, are omitted, the bottom of cylinder A in that case fit-ting down upon the lirebox. Any number of these tubes or openings being closed at one end and having doors, as D', attached to the other end, become so many ovens, in which, from the peculiar arrangement of the two series of alternating tubes, the heat is distributed throughout with remarkable evenness, and by using those of different elevations almost any desired degree of heat may be had.

The arrows, Fig. 2, indicate the `course of the current ot' heat c as it enters b b b b in its meanderings upward among and around the tubes, and c at its exit into the smokepipe.

As a radiator the power ot' my improvement results, first, from the very large amount ot' radiating-surface in proportion to its size, and, second and principally, from the fact that by the pCculia-r arrangement of the tubular openings, each one being erosswise of one next below and that next above it, so that the ascending current of heat is constantly being changed, and thus brought into actual contact with every part ofthe surface, not only of the cylinder but of every one of the tubes.

As an oven, I am aware that elevated ovens, being usually the inner one of two concentric horizontal cylinders between whose surfaces the heat passes at some distance from the ends, causing Often too intense a heat where the current passes, while at the ends the heat may be quite insufticient, have been used before; but my oven differs from all those in that, as to novelty, it is in combination with the perpendicular cylinder and the novel arrangement of the two series of tubes inserted therein, as above described, and the current of heat, instead of passing around the middle, as in those, is divided by the tlue immediately below that used as an oven into two parts, one of which strikes the oven at each end, and thus produces an evenness or equality ot' heat or temperature throughout.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of cylinder A with the two series ot' tubes or tubular openings D D, Smc., and D Df, Ste., inserted therein, as and for the purpose shown and represented.

2. The closing of 011e end of any number of the tubes or tubular openings D, D/, D, &c., and the attachment of oven-doors at the other ends, as D', in combination with cylinder A and the two series of tubes D D", 85o., and D D, 85o., inserted therein, as and for the purpose shown and represented.

JAMES BEEBE.

Witnesses P. A. HOYNE, H. SLOAN, 

